FIlm Review
Film Review: Settlers
We live in a time when the colonisation of the stars is closer than it has ever been before. Whilst our probes delve deeper, both in terms of distance and detail, billionaires race against one another to be the first to monetise space. All the science points to the fact that the Earth is rapidly …
Film Review: The Boy Behind the Door
In genre cinema, evil comes in many (often highly imaginative) shapes and sizes but it’s usually in a form which is palatable to the viewer and apportions blame outside the human realm. We find It difficult to comprehend that someone who looks like us can be inherently evil. However, life sadly doesn’t work like that …
Film Review: The Offering
Guilt is not easy to live with and likes to make an appearance at the most inconvenient moments. It certainly isn’t a good bedfellow if you were planning on catching any sleep anytime soon. It can quietly gnaw away at us all our lives, each and every day. What if there was something you could …
Film Review: For Madmen Only
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of Del Close. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Whilst he was instrumental in helping make the careers of just about anyone who was anyone from a generation of American comedians, he never achieved fame himself. This is partly down to bad luck but like so many talented …
Film Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
The history of Hollywood is littered with tales of child actors who achieved fame early and then went off the rails, often disappearing entirely from public life. Sometimes, as was the case with Drew Barrymore, they manage to get their careers back on track, but more often than not they largely fade from the public …
Film Review – Luz: The Flower of Evil
Whilst much of the horror we see in our multiplexes comes from Hollywood, having a big budget or huge marketing campaign doesn’t necessarily make it any good. In fact, the opposite is often the case. Although harder to find, South America, as a continent, is beginning to produce some great genre cinema. The likes of …
Film Review: All the Streets are Silent
Culture, counter-culture and music do no operate in vacuums. While there are people who like to place things in nice neat boxes, in reality life is messy. New York in the 1980s and early 1990s was a city full of crime, poverty and myriad social issues. Places like downtown Manhattan haven’t always been the preserve …
Film Review: Kandisha
Much of the genre landscape is unfairly dominated by films from North America, and to a lesser degree Britain and Australasia. This can largely be attributed to language and where the money is to finance filmmaking. Despite this, one of the most interesting movements in modern horror cinema has been that of the French new …
Film Review: Nowhere Special
For centuries, adoption has been a taboo subject in the UK and Ireland. It has been something patriarchal societies did to women, often against their will, when they gave birth out of wedlock. A device used by rich men to hide away their ‘little accidents’. Today, the stigma may have subsided but it hasn’t disappeared, …
Film Review: Deerskin
There are few, if any, filmmakers working anywhere in the world today who have the inventiveness or singularity of vision of Quentin Dupieux. In a career which spans two decades (so far) the Frenchman has made a number of unlikely gems. His breakthrough came with Rubber, a film about a serial-killing tyre. He has gone …